The coldest recess ever and other reasons I’m glad I don’t live in Alaska

My old college buddy Marc lives in Juneau, Alaska, where they breed a completely different kind of badass kid, it seems. He posted on Facebook last week this email from his daughter’s school:

This is a reminder that it’s Harborview School policy to have outdoor recess unless temperatures reach -25º with wind chill. We are having outdoor recess today and will likely have them all week. Please make sure to send students with appropriate clothing for the weather, including hats, gloves, and boots so that they can be safe and comfortable at recess.

My child, by contrast, has been wearing her snowboots during the past month’s 65º weather. But she could totally take those kids in a battle in Houston in August.

Hazel in Arkansas over Christmas, when the weather was in the high 50s